Posted on 09/11/2025 5:21:00 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Wow, that’s a LOT of words. Some key things are missing — quality of life and crime. Almost all big cities have become irreparable, filthy, disgusting cesspools. People in their 20s might tolerate it for a few years, but they soon move out.
The author wrote “It has shifted decisively in recent years to less urban and lower-density states such as Idaho...”
I can attest to the huge influx into North Idaho. Ugh.
Small towns are better anyway
Our larger cities are too big, especially with dependence on the automobile thrown in. A correction is overdue.
I’ll happily take the “backwaters.”
Just south of Raleigh is one of the fastest growing towns in the USA, due to the Research Triangle Park industrial growth.
The name of the town is CARY, which we always joked stood for “Containment Area for Relocated Yankees.”
However, after the influx of all the Indians with work visas, the joke now is that they changed the spelling of the town to CARI, which stands for “Containment Area for Relocated Indians.”
I hear Detroit is cheap.
My neighbor is a bear.
RE: I hear Detroit is cheap.
At one time you could get an abandoned house in Detroit
for $100 if you agreed to bring it up to code after a one year deadline.
Assuming you lived that long.
Detroit decline for 7 straight decades since the 1.86 million peak in 1950s. Now “immigration” has led to a small increase.
A whopping 1.1% upswing.
The hippie era of the late 1960s led to a big trend to set up communes in country areas. Mother Jones Magazine had cover stories such as “How To Get Out of the City Now.”
One article said: ...”participants sought to grow their own food, use alternative energy, and produce their own necessities, reducing their dependence on the consumer economy.”
3.5 years ago I relocated from Tampa to the smallest, most run-down rural town I could find in NW Tennessee (population 2000). It has been a big improvement in my quality of life, and I now have the most wonderful friends here.
Surprisingly, I'm also happier here with the medical care I receive than anywhere else I've lived.
Far better!
‘Almost all big cities have become irreparable, filthy, disgusting cesspools’
You can thank the libtards for that.
Crime would be the bigger factor in IMO.
But I’m no *expert*.
There are places near Detroit, like Clinton Twp., that are not bad. A family member bought a house for cheap there and redid it. The home is on a dirt road, so it is rather countrified.
We were in Detroit for a wedding last Saturday. GPS was NOT our friend. She sent us down some scary streets. One spot, like an old church, is okay, but a street over the buildings are all boarded up.
I moved out of a small People’s Republic City ~10 years ago.
Now I’m in deepest fly-over country and couldn’t be happier.
When I spoke to a neighbor who had moved here from the big city I asked why they had chosen our area I got the usual spiel about prices and land and fresh country air. Later his wife quietly said, "it has been almost 40 years since there was a murder here. We want our kids to be safe."
I’m thankful you all survived. Probably GPS doesn’t want to appear racist. /S
By the way, I have never had or used a GPS. Luddite.
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It was Google maps that talked. LOL. We will not be buying a real GPS spy machine
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